Dan Franck

Dan Franck (born 17 October 1952 in Paris) is a French novelist and screenwriter. His novel La Séparation won the 1991 Prix Renaudot, and was made into a movie, La Séparation. Source: Article "Dan Franck" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Works

Marseille
6.2

Marseille

The longtime mayor of Marseille is preparing to hand over the reins to his protégé when a sudden and ruthless battle erupts for control of the city.

Release Date:2016-05-05

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Episode Count:16

Vote Count:59

The Adventurers of Modern Art
7.0

The Adventurers of Modern Art

Release Date:2015-12-16

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:1

Life Ahead of Them

Life Ahead of Them

In the middle of the 1970s, in the north of France, an explosion occurs in a mine. Three men and their secrets are buried there. Alma, Solana and Caroline have to fight for the honor of their fathers, take their destinies in hand, and emancipate themselves in a period of great social upheaval.

Release Date:2015-04-28

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Resistance
8.0

Resistance

In occupied France, 17-year-old Lili encounters war before love, and joins the Resistance. Through the interconnecting destinies of its teenage heroes, Resistance tells the story of young people going to any lengths to defend their country.

Release Date:2014-05-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:9

Spin
6.2

Spin

The President of the French Republic, visiting Saint-Etienne in the Loire, in a striking plant dies, victim of a bomb attack. The political world is agitated: early presidential elections to be held within the next thirty-five days. There is no doubt that Philip Deleuvre, the prime minister, will run for the Elysee. But what few people know is that the leader of the government knows more things he claimed. This state causes lie back to business Kapita Simon, a former communications adviser (spin doctor) of the late president. Anxious to preserve the honor of his deceased friend and some form of political ethics, the man of the shadows has now set a goal: to find a candidate who will be able to beat Deleuvre.

Release Date:2012-01-25

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:17

J'étais à Nüremberg

Nina, a young Polish woman exiled in London, and Pierre Bernard, envoy of General de Gaulle, are part of the international team assembled in Nuremberg after the Second World War to try twenty-four Nazi war criminals.

Release Date:2011-11-15

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

5.3

Goldman

As a veteran of the Latin-American guerilla wars, Pierre Goldman became a mythical figure of the French protest movement of the '60s.

Release Date:2011-08-29

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:3

7.0

Carlos

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.

Release Date:2010-07-07

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:205

3.8

Un homme d'honneur

Release Date:2009-05-09

Department:Writing

Job:Scenario Writer

Vote Count:2

5.8

One Day You'll Understand

A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.

Release Date:2008-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:8

5.6

Monsieur Max

Portrait of a homosexual bohemian who converted from Judaism to Catholicism and was captured by the Gestapo in the 1940s.

Release Date:2007-01-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:8

5.2

The Children

Pierre Esteban is a middle-aged technology teacher, divorced from Hélène, who has two children. Jeanne Lancry is a lively estate agent in the same situation : a divorcée with two children. They discover they love visiting empty apartments together and...more than just that! Life would be just wonderful if they were fifteen years earlier. But there are the children. It would be fine to live altogether in the same place. The question is : will the kids get on well with each other?

Release Date:2005-04-06

Department:Writing

Job:Scenario Writer

Vote Count:10

Simon le juste

Release Date:2003-01-29

Department:Writing

Job:Scenario Writer

Vivement dimanche
3.0

Vivement dimanche

Release Date:1998-09-20

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:7

6.0

La Séparation

In Paris, Pierre and Anne have been living together for a couple of years and they have the eighteen months son Loulou, who stays with the nanny Laurence during the day while they work. Their best friends are the couple Victor and Claire, who also is not married but live together. Out of the blue, Pierre feels Anne estranged with him and sooner she discloses that she is in love with another man. Pierre seems to accept her affair but their relationship rapidly deteriorates, and Pierre becomes violent with her.

Release Date:1994-11-09

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:28

5.7

Toujours seuls

A large family crams into a three-room flat in a drab suburb.Twelve people ,soon joined,out of the blue, by the prodigal son, released from jail.To make matters worse,the TV set , then the sofa and finally the refrigerator vanish into thin air.Neverthelesss, life goes on ,with mom's nervous breakdowns , dad's absences ;The daughter, Julie, an abandoned social worker,is always sobbing ; her sister , rehearsing the "Hebrew slaves chorus" is eagerly waiting for her drafted fiancee.

Release Date:1991-06-26

Character:Boss of the hair salon

Vote Count:3

5.1

Netchayev is Back

Freshly landed in Paris, Daniel Laurençon, who calls himself Netchaïev, who was believed dead five years ago in Gibraltar, warns a commercial center of a bomb attack a few minutes before its completion.

Release Date:1991-01-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:7

Berlin Lady

Berlin Lady

Boro's adventure begins in Paris in the late twenties. As a minor employee in a photographic agency, he works for a pittance. However, thanks to his love of life, his handsome appearance and his appeal to women, he leads a varied and turbulent life. In spite of his numerous affairs, the great love of his life is his cousin, Maryika, the famous actress from Berlin. When Boro learns that Maryika is expected in Munich for the premiere of her latest film, he decides to visit her there. Boro is disappointed in his meeting with Maryika; he has to spend the night alone on the couch.

Release Date:1991-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:1

Apostrophes
8.5

Apostrophes

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

Release Date:1975-01-10

Character:Self

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:2

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